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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing |
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> or testing software packages. |
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> |
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> Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not |
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> brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my |
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> system, but more recently, they fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tree |
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> which I'd like to test the fix for. It's not dead simple for me to do this - I |
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> want to use the CVS sources with the ebuild already in portage. I have to use |
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> "ebuild foo-3.2.1.ebuild unpack" to extract the sources, then manually replace |
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> them with my CVS checkout. Or checkout CVS, make a new tarball, call it |
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> foo-3.2.1.tar.bz2, redigest and remerge the ebuild. Or I could create a |
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> foo-cvs ebuild and go to the trouble of making it mirror the contents of |
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> foo-3.2.1.ebuild exactly. |
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Tarball up the snapshot, ensure the ebuild relies on $PV for |
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discerning what tarball to unpack (src_uri="http://download.berlios.de/${PN}/${PF}.tar.bz2" fex) |
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and all you have to do is rename the ebuild to the snapshot tag.... |
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~brian |
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